Fair compensation and flexibility overshadowed by leadership instability - Staff Software Engineer Snyk Employee Review

2.0
26 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Fair compensation, flexible working, great PTO policies.

Cons

Leadership cannot commit to a plan. Every 6 months there's another reorg around a new mission, when R&D is only just getting back up to speed with the last set of changes. Now they can't even commit to a leader. CEO is gone, senior leadership posts are a revolving door. Most recent layoffs cited slow speed of progress against goals, when the organization has no hope of delivering when the goals and teams keep changing.

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5.0
2 June 2026
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Pros

The pay, the people, the benefits

Cons

They're a non-public, start-up company, they had layoffs which is always scary.

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2.0
21 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Fully remote, flexible, and monthly stipends. Good pay.

Cons

Shady leadership. Tendency to hire employees for a specific reason only to dissolve their position once whatever project they forecasted for the employee is complete. I’ve seen it happen to multiple employees during my employment until it finally happened to me after a few years. Was advised by a former employee in leadership that I would more than likely be overloaded with work and worked out the door in some way because that was their trend. I didn’t believe it but it started happening to many people around me. I don’t trust these people and managers are very loose lipped, move sloppily, and doesn’t know how to not let secrets slip out. I knew my position was being dissolved from meetings I saw on my managers calendar. Luckily I started applying for jobs because I saw the writing on the walls. I had something else lined up but was still a bit blindsided because I was clearly communicating need for help to my leadership. Multiple interviews asking how I was doing and what I needed help with only for 3 days later to be told my position was no longer needed.

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